Choose the correct example of a historical allusion.
"much laughter has been indulged in at my expense for having told the congress audience at calcutta that if there was sufficient
response to my programme of non-co-operation swaraj would be attained in one year."
"my proposition however is based on a mathematical calculation and l venture to say that true swaraj is a practical impossibility
without due fulfilment of my conditions."
o "let us not mistake reformed councils, more lawcourts and even governorships for real freedom or power. they are but subtier
methods of emasculation."
"the germans were defeated not because they were necessarily in the wrong, but because the allied powers were found to posses
greater brute strength."

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

i think one answer could be this poet uses no rhyme.